Chapter 294 Shootout! Kill them all! To uphold the prestige of the country!

   Tokugawa Iemitsu really felt that what Liu Zongzhou said was the most reasonable, and he was willing to believe it.

  He is even beginning to fantasize now, if the world surrenders to his daimyo, samurai, and even the common people, they can all believe in the truth that "starving to death is a small thing, but injustice is a big thing".

   In this way, there will not be so many people who are against the shogunate.

   Thinking about it again, Liu Zongzhou said just now that the Ming Kingdom has already achieved this, so it has lasted for more than two hundred years.

  Tokugawa Iemitsu felt more and more that Liu Zongzhou would be of great help to him in maintaining his rule.

"However, there were a large number of hungry people. It was not because the West Factory of the Ming Dynasty used up all the grain and fodder in our warehouse. In addition, it was not because the Japanese cloth was unsalable. A large amount of Ming cloth flooded the city, and even the upper class nobles also used Ming silk. As a result of the bankruptcy of a large number of Japanese merchants who weaved silk?! Before the West Factory of Ming Dynasty, we extorted a huge amount of compensation from our shogunate, but the shogunate distributed the financial burden caused by this to the common people. So, why didn’t Mr. Jishan say What do you think of these things?"

  At this time, a discordant voice suddenly appeared.

   The one who said this was Tokugawa Tadaga, Tokugawa Iemitsu's half-brother.

   Tokugawa Tadaga is obviously more willing to believe that the intensification of internal conflicts in his country is caused by the exploitation and oppression of his country by the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Du's expression was ugly at this time, and then he sneered and said, "What does this have to do with my Ming Dynasty? It's just taking your food and fodder for a year. But after so many years, it’s time to restore and cancel the additional distribution. But you don’t cancel the additional distribution, can you blame us? In addition, as for the cloth silk, who made my Daming’s cloth silk cheap and high-quality, even more How can you blame us for being welcomed by the Japanese people. Besides, you should thank me, Daming, for saving many of you Japanese people from the cold!"

   After hearing this, Tokugawa Tadaga took a look at Tokugawa Iemitsu: "So, our shogunate doesn't know how to be frugal?"

   "Stop mentioning it again!"

  Tokugawa Iemitsu glanced at Tokugawa Tadaga, said something, and then said, "Today I only listen to Mr. Jishan's lectures, talking about the way to control the people, not about general affairs!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu hated his eldest brother very much, because he had to admit that he was the eldest brother, he disrespected himself very much, and obviously deliberately insinuated that he was not frugal and bad at governing the country, and deliberately provoked conflicts with the Ming Dynasty first, And he intends to take this opportunity to let those retainers who are dissatisfied with his weak attitude towards Akira get close to him.

  But Tokugawa Iemitsu did not want to emphasize the conflict with Ming, because he knew that offending Ming would end badly.

  Tokugawa Iemitsu also stopped Tokugawa Tadaga from continuing, but only asked Liu Zongzhou for advice: "Mr. Jishan, I don't know how to comfort the people so that they know how to behave properly?"

Liu Zongzhou said without hesitation: "The master said: 'Government with virtue, such as Beichen, where all the stars live together.' Those who have the virtue of heaven can then speak the way of kings. The key lies in the fear of independence. Therefore, the way of a sage is not a thing. It is also a matter of seeking. May the general look at the spare time of the court, be close to the Confucian officials, listen to the government, benefit from the history, seek its independence and be cautious, and then neutralize and educate, and the common people are not far away from this."

  Tokugawa Iemitsu was taken aback when he heard this, and then smiled and said, "Can you explain it more clearly, sir?"

   "Go smart and straighten people's hearts."

  Liu Zongzhou replied.

  Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded, and asked, "But the wisdom of the common people will correct the hearts of the people in the world?"

   "That's exactly the reason."

  Liu Zongzhou replied.

   After hearing this, Tokugawa Iemitsu said: "I will definitely get close to Confucian ministers, sir, don't worry."

  Liu Zongzhou smiled slightly, and he suddenly found that the Japanese general was very enlightened and possessed the spirit of benevolence.

  Xu Du said to Tadakatsu Sakai, the shogun at the side, "Why do you still keep your general's eldest brother? Are you waiting for trouble to arise?"

   Sakai Tadakatsu said: "The old general is still there, so it's inconvenient to do anything at the moment."

Xu Du nodded after hearing this: "In any case, this person can't stay. Once the raw silk is handed over in the east of Zhejiang, the West Factory will send 200,000 bolts of silk next year, and we will sell the two pieces of silk with the joint firm of your shogunate. 100,000 bolts of silk, there will be no more boycotts of open goods, otherwise, our West Factory will have no money to make, and you will be no good!"

   "Understood! Your country has already run out of raw silk, and the weaving workshops under the names of various vassals have long been unable to turn over and produce no silk. Once this silk comes, it will definitely be out of stock."

   Sakai Tadakatsu said with a smile, and then said: "It's just that many Daisuke and Daimyo blame your country for this, saying that you should teach your country so that your country will not only cut off raw silk exports."

   "How to teach?"

   Xu Du sneered.

   "Naturally, you can't teach me a lesson. This is against the friendship between the two countries. Our general also understands it. It's okay to say that Daisuke is dissatisfied, but some daimyos clamored to raise troops and fall down because of this!"

   Sakai Tadakatsu Road.

Xu Du thought for a while and said: "As long as your shogunate guarantees my Ming's interests in your country, our West Factory will naturally not be willing to let such a thing happen. This time I am here, the uncle of the country has authorized me to negotiate a batch of firearms with you If you have some time, come to my Xichang Concession area, I will show you, I believe you will be interested, maybe you have these firearms, you can really make your generals become the real monarchs of the Japanese country, and prevent people from fighting Bad things under the banner of respecting the king and fighting barbarians."

   Tadakatsu Sakai was overjoyed after hearing this: "I have heard for a long time that the firearms of the West Factory are excellent. If we can buy a batch, our shogunate will definitely satisfy your country and send you a big gift."

   "Is he the big gift?"

   Xu Du looked at Tadaga Tokugawa.

   Sakai Tadakatsu nodded, "Yes!"

  As Zhang Gui said before, the biggest problem for Daming now is the large number of people.

  Under today's productivity conditions, domestic resources are no longer sufficient to meet the material needs of everyone.

   What's more, the internal gap between the rich and the poor is also the most serious time in history.

  Although after several years of internal reforms, the gap between the rich and the poor has eased a lot, but because of this, the rulers have put a lot of pressure on them.

  Just rebellion happened several times.

   Moreover, even so, the problem of insufficient resources has not been solved. The key point is that many new problems have been created.

  The biggest problem is that in order to solve the survival problems of many refugees, the rulers of Ming Dynasty let them engage in industrial activities, and then produced many industrial products.

  These industrial products need a market, and without a market, they cannot be sold and exchanged for more resources.

  So, in general, if Daming wants to bring more resources back to China to solve the problem of insufficient resources caused by the large number of people, he has to expand the market outward.

   Now Xu wants the shogunate to be his own comprador of Ming Dynasty, just to expand the market of Ming Dynasty in Japan.

   Don't underestimate the size of the Japanese market in this era.

India, Ming Dynasty, and Wa Kingdom were the three largest markets in Asia in this era. Besides India and Ming Dynasty, the main trading partners of the Western Yi people such as the Netherlands were Wa Kingdom. This also created a commercially prosperous Nagasaki in this era. In addition, it also promoted Lanxue and the country's lock-up policy were born.

   Therefore, Daming also needs to monopolize the Japanese market.

   More importantly, in this era, the Wa country had its own weaving workshops, because the raw silk in the Jiangnan area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, that is, the raw material for weaving, was mainly exported to the Wa country.

   And Daming is now going to bankrupt Wa country's own weaving workshop.

  This will inevitably hurt the interests of many Japanese nobles. After all, the weaving industry of the Japanese country must be controlled by the nobles.

   Fortunately, Xichang had colluded with the shogunate early on, and could suppress these nobles with the help of the shogunate.

  Turn back.

  In addition to expanding the market, use business-based means to earn resources back to the country.

  Daming used more direct violence to seize resources overseas.

   "Fire!"

boom!

boom!

boom!

  By an unknown small river in Sumatra, thousands of aborigines were forced to kneel on the ground by the Ming Tiger Army.

   Li Zicheng, the chief soldier of the Huben Army, waved his hand directly and gave the order to kill these aborigines, regardless of age.

  For a while, all these natives were killed.

  Why kill all the natives?

  (end of this chapter)